--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: > > ShempMcGurk wrote: > > > > So I think a better explanation of the paying for and maintaining of a > > police and fire department through taxes is just that: taxation for the > > general welfare. > > > > So then you aren't opposed to paying taxes for free health care? That > promotes the general welfare.
I am opposed to any kind of governmental intervention in health. > Do you participate in Arizona's health > care program. As I wrote here in the past, I used to participate in Arizona's universal health care program for the self-employed (everyone accepted, even with pre-existing conditions) but don't anymore. > If so then it would be hypocritical of you to criticize a > similar program for the entire nation. > If I'm in prison I'll still eat at the prison cafeteria. > And should we be paying taxes for the general welfare of non-citizens > such as those in Afghanistan and Iraq? Let them eat hummus. > Last I looked those weren't US > states though there are probably some US corporations that want them > that way so they can get at the old. > > But it isn't socialism. > > > > But you and other wingnuts here keep calling government health care > "socialism" as you do a number of other things. I think what you are > actually against is "communism" not socialism. > No, I'm against both. But I will partake of any socialistic or otherwise government program if available to me. As for your insulting of my by calling me a "wingnut", well, that makes you sound very un-Bhairitu like.
